You post this in a thread about someone wanting to raise taxes because “it’s the Christian thing to do”?

But, of course, that would have interfered with your practice of trying to turn every report, every finding into some type of “liberal” conmspiracy. Sometimes the facts speak for themselves, in spite of your repeated efforts to put a spin on them.

This is a powerful and well-reasoned counter argument to the article. I’ll have to study both sides before I reach any conclusion.

>>It’s the right, Christian thing to do,” Knight said.

Lefties never seem to have a problem with doing leftie stuff for Christian reasons, but let a Conservative legislator propose a law because it’s what God wants….

The beauty (for lefties) of looking ONLY at income is that every fix one exacerbates the problem, giving them an even bigger problem to fix.

From Walter Williams on a related topic:

…high-income households are larger with an average of 3.1 people in the top fifth, compared with 2.5 people in the middle fifth and 1.7 in the bottom fifth. Thus, if we look at spending per person, the difference between the richest and poorest households falls to just 2.1 to 1 and the average person in the middle fifth spends just 29 percent more than someone living in a bottom-fifth household.

Interestingly, every dollar of government “assistance” to the poor makes the gap larger. Government assistance is not counted in the statistics, only income is. When we increase assistance, it decreases the need for people to earn an income and makes the gap larger.

The government should do something about this. People should not be permitted to be poor. Anyone who cannot get themselves a good education (free), to show up to work (sober) and provide a valuable service should have their lives managed by the government.

The government should leave the rest of us alone so that there will be someone around to fund their utopian dreams.